[9th PhDSS Award Winners]

Like every year, at this year’s PhDSS we gave out awards for best oral presentations, best poster presentations, most attentive listeners and additionally for Quiz winners:


The Best Oral Presentations


1. Daniela Ivanković (Mathematics): “CHASING EXTREMES: HOW OFTEN DO RARE EVENTS OCCUR?”
2. Lucija Vrban (Chemistry): “DISRUPTION OF MONOAMINE OXIDASE B ENZYME BY SARS-COV-2 SPIKE PROTEIN: IMPLICATIONS FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES” 

3. Lea Čolakić (Chemistry): “REAL-TIME IN SITU MONITORING OF STEREOSELECTIVE MECHANOCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF OXIMES”


The Best Poster Presentations


1. Bernardo Marciuš (Chemistry): “DETERMINATION OF IODINE AND HEAVY METALS IN ALGAE AND ALGAE-BASED FOOD WITH INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY (ICP-MS) AFTER ALKALINE EXTRACTION AND MICROWAVE DIGESTION”
2. Robert Pendelić (Chemistry): “A CELL-BASED REPORTER SYSTEM FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL INHIBITORS OF AMINOACYL-tRNA-SYNTHETASES”
3. Tea Frey (Chemistry): “COMPUTATONALLY RATIONALIZING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ORGANIC CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS THROUGH MODIFYING MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS”


The Most Attentive Listeners


  1. @mara.vlasic
  2. @dani_ivankovic
  3. @marko_mandaric10
  4. @alkemicarkana


STEM Quiz Winning Teams


1. Maxwellovi demoni

2. Ivana Banfić Mažuranić

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Honorary mention (second to last place). 1234pet